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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by wiz21c on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:25AM (#28453748)
I guess your company is running on Java and running something else would cost a lot in training, recruiting, understanding, etc. But down the line, defeating the JVM will be understood only by the guy who did it... Then that guy will leave... Then the newcomers will rewrite the thing in Spark 'cos it will feel safer. Rinse-repeat...

(I'm totally speculating, but your story seems so true that it inspired me :-)

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Re:My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day by SNosTrAnDbLe on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:17PM (#28462475)
Some of it is what you mentioned about training and hiring costs that but mostly its this creation of the narrative that it will scale someday in the future. This is usually done by that engineer(s) and they are good at selling so a different opinion is ignored or frowned upon by the leadership.

I have now seen this anti pattern in multiple places now

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